Post by redonihunter in Issue Persisting: Game Not Indexed

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Itch has grown and infos are outdated. They obviously have some system that puts new stuff on a queue to be reviewed and other stuff directly to index.

There is speculation that certain actions will always trigger an inspection or put you back into queue.

And we should mind this: we do not know all the items that do not appear on index, since we do not see them. We do not see all the crap that does rightfully get cought and dealt with by staff. Think about this: there are about a million projects on itch. But they have a counter for projects that is over 2.5 million. This means, that over half again the current projects were either deleted or rejected - automatically or by staff or by the developer.

https://itch.io/docs/creators/quality-guidelines

There is inprecise, even contradictory information on that page regarding indexing. But it also is only a guideline, so maybe take it with a grain of salt.

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Diennetti31 days ago

"And please dont tell me "there's a milion games to review"

"Think about this: there are about a million projects on itch. But they have a counter for projects that is over 2.5 million."

Anyway...

Im saying there's no rules in the process of getting indexed without the staff care. Its totally random and non-equal, some games goes to the index some not.
Are you also suggesting that Itch has grown but still got no will to update infos and guideline? where's the growth? just the number of projects? Guidelines and rules are there for what?

I think its better to have a transparent and precise communication with your community, instead of missleading information and lack of services.

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redonihunter31 days ago

You misread my argument. I was telling that there are 1.5 million projects not on the index. You say that there are projects indexed immediatly. And this is so. But you cannot know how many projects are not, for the simple fact, that you do not see them.

And of course it is equal for all games. They all go through the exact same process. But you do not know what this process entails, you only see the outcome and claim that, because the outcome is not the same, the process must be different, random or whatever.

As for growth, this is in projects published per time frame.

2019 (69,857 results)

2020 (126,693 results)

2021 (165,128 results)

2022 (176,758 results)

2023 (196,977 results)

And this is only the remaining projects, that are still indexed.

From observation I can tell, that the process mentioned above does has some automatic screening with unknown parameters that flag stuff for manual inspection. Who knows, maybe it even does have random aspects like controls on an airport.

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